Keck Scholars Program
KSP Students
In addition, to your first-year seminar coursework the following programmatic elements are required as a participant in the KSP. Your professor has outlined his/her expectations in his/her course syllabus.
Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR)
In preparation for the final presentations, students enrolled in KSP seminars are required to attend the SCCUR. The one-day, regional conference welcomes all disciplines, provides a professional yet congenial atmosphere of intellectual inquiry and exchange of new discoveries, is appropriate for entry-level presentations and first-year students, and provides peer-reviewed feedback on abstract submissions prior to final abstract acceptance. By attending, KSP students are exposed to academic conference culture and witness their peer disseminating products of research. In the subsequent fall semester, KSP alumni are encouraged to present their research at SCCUR either in the form of an oral seminar, poster presentation, artistic performance, or artistic display.
Mini-Grant Information
As a final intellectual exercise in the course you are required to individually propose a hypothetical research project. In addition, you have the opportunity to receive funding to carry out your project over the Spring or Summer terms under the guidance of a faculty mentor.